TD Jakes - This Is Your Opportunity
God is opening massive, immeasurable opportunities for His people to step into the fullness of the Holy Spirit and a higher expression of their destiny, drawing from the story of Isaac digging wells despite opposition. No matter the past failures or blockages, persistent digging leads to breakthrough into a large place of generational blessing and freedom.
A Massive Opportunity from God
Greetings, brothers and sisters in the name of Jesus Christ our Savior. I am blessed to have the opportunity to share with you, and even after preaching for 37 years, I still get excited about the Word—how it strengthens your heart and life and helps you.
Whatever you have been imagining is too small compared to what God has opened up before you. It is massive. It is huge. It is beyond human comprehension. It’s an opportunity you can’t measure with a stick or a yardstick. You can’t put it in a computer. It’s simply an opportunity, but so huge.
If you walk into what God is giving you—the fullness of the Holy Spirit—you will never, ever be the same again. A radical revolution is about to take place.
This is about a space and time that God has created for you to step into a new dimension—a higher expression of yourself, the outworking of the internal. Something has been shut up in your spirit, tied up in your belly. You have finally come to the place of maturity where you can step into what you have been dreaming about, and God is about to revolutionize your life.
Touch your neighbor and say, this thing is big. This thing is huge. It’s mammoth, it’s more than I thought. It’s going to revolutionize how you think, move, and function.
God Sets You in a Large Place
God said He is setting you into a large place. Touch your neighbor and say, look for opportunities. Don’t watch the clock, don’t look at the calendar, don’t worry about the seasons or what comes in the mail or what people say. God is setting before you a large opportunity.
If you perceive it as a large opportunity, you can walk into it and manage it, and the wells of blessings, waters, joy, and deliverance are going to flow. It’s going to start in you—coming out of your belly, out of your spirit, out of your creativity.
That’s why the enemy wants you distracted and stressed out. Because this large place starts from a small place. God said, dig out your old wells. Go to the places that have been jammed up, closed down, and not flowing. Dig them out—things you put on the back burner, things you didn’t have resources to do.
Out of small places will come big things. This is how you will know it’s a moving of the Holy Spirit: not a lot of thunder or clouds, but small clouds with big rain. Not big ovens or restaurant tours, but small stuff like two fish and five loaves of bread. It will start small but erupt into something real big.
Don’t Despise Small Beginnings
Don’t despise small beginnings. What is significant to you is God—in spite of all you have been through, all you failed to do, all done to you, and all who tried to cancel you out. God extended you, sent His angels to escort you, and He’s about to put you in a large place.
Someone say, this thing is big. I groaned for it, I cried for it, I labored for it, I almost died over it. But this thing down inside of me is big. If you dig it out, it’s going to be huge blessings—generational blessings. Isaac dug out his father’s wells.
Everything that had been holding you back, shutting you down, and in your way—I came with your emancipation proclamation. Praise Him like you mean it. Walk like you mean it. Talk like you mean it. Whatever was holding you back, it just broke! The restriction, limitation, intimidation, fear, curse of your childhood, negative voices—all that said you can’t do that, can’t have that, can’t be that—it just broke.
This Is Your Year to Run
So He told me to tell you: this is your year to run, not walk. Run into it. It is a large opportunity for which all of hell is intimidated. After a long season of not enough, frustration, and intimidation—every time you dug something out, something shut it down again.
Isaac dug the first well and couldn’t get the blessing. But he kept on digging. Touch your neighbor and say, keep on digging. Some things you tried ended in failure, and the enemy mocked you, saying if it had been of God, it would have worked. But the devil is a liar. Keep on digging.
He dug the second well, got some water, then the Philistines claimed it. He could have given up, but he kept on digging. The reason the Lord wanted you here tonight is because after all the hell, setbacks, and storms—every time the devil thought you’d quit, you got your shovel out and kept digging.
This is your year. The third well was the ticket. When they dug the third well, Isaac said the Lord is going to put me in a large place. Touch somebody and say, get ready. This is it. You just hit it.
Welcome to Your New Opportunity
I’m supposed to welcome you to your new place, your new opportunity, your new destiny. Welcome! Open your mouth and give God the praise. Touch your neighbor and tell them, this is my opportunity, my year, my moment.
In the spirit, something just opened up—something you’ve been waiting to break just broke loose. For the next 60 seconds, if you want to break out, give God a praise. This is a large place. After failure, struggle, and attack, you have finally come into your own. None of your haters can stop you from this moment.
This thing is huge. Join hands with somebody—leave no one untouched. You are not finished. Unclutter your well, your mind, and your spirit. There were things thrown down in the well to stop the flow, but Isaac uncluttered the place of blessings.
When you get your blessing, you’ll get your dad’s, granddaddy’s, and great-grandma’s blessings too. You will walk into a bigger expression of who you are. God is going to do it for you.
Break Every Chain
This is your opportunity. If you waste the year, you’ll lose the opportunity. Unclutter your well—your ancestors’ blessings await you. A grace has been allocated to you, a freshness.
How you saw yourself was a chain. Your normal was a chain. If you break your normal, you’ll find out who you really are. All your life you’ve been fighting yourself, sabotaging yourself. You could have been there a long time ago, but your normal became your warden.
Tonight God is going to break every chain—chains on your heart, peace, personality, creativity. Every chain that pulled you back, God will break it and set you in the large place He showed you, the place He put in your belly, the place you were created to be in.
This is your opportunity.